[Corpora-List] graduate position in SMT

[Giuseppe Attardi]

Università di Pisa
Dipartimento di Informatica (Department of Informatics)
Italy

is offering a graduate position in the field of “Statistical Machine Translation”.

Research Activity:
the research will be conducted as part of an undergoing national
research project, whose goal is to develop techniques of
statistical machine translation based on syntax and to implement a
translation service for Web content pertaining to the Italian culture.
The research will be conducted at the Department of Informatics.
A state of the art dependency parser, as well as a full linguistic processing pipeline,
developed by our team will be exploited.

The successful candidates will have a strong background in computer
science and knowledge of statistical machine learning techniques,
with emphasis on text and natural language analysis.
They are expected to provide leadership on technical issues and well as
to contribute to the development of object oriented applications.

Skills and Experience:
- A background in Computer Science with specialization in Computational
   Linguistics or Natural Language Processing
- Excellent programming skills in C++ and Python
- Expert-level understanding of statistical machine learning techniques
   as applied to machine translation

Education:
Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

Age: younger than 32 year.

Duration: 26 months.
Salary: gross 1600 Euro/month.

Application:
The official call is available at:
http://www.unipi.it/ateneo/bandi/cococo/Dip.-Informatica-FIRB-Linguistica.rtf_pdfcvt.pdf

Closing date for application: October 8, 2010.

Facilities:
The project will use a cluster of 1024 cores provided
through a collaboration with Ferrari Formula 1.

General information about the Department of Informatics can be found at
http://www.di.unipi.it.

Please address questions concerning the position toattardi at di.unipi.it.



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